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History of October 19
1765 - In the U.S., The Stamp Act Congress met and drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1944 - The U.S. Navy...
History of October 17
1456 - The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe
1855 - Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1888...
History of October 15
1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar
1764 - Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter...
History of October 14
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his...
History of October 13
1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
1307 - French King Philip IV...
Ghost Towns of Japan – 4 Years later: Fukushima Nuclear...
Polish photographer ArkadiuszPodniesinski went inside the 20km exclusion zone around the disaster in Japan to capture and found a chilling world frozen in time.
1.Super-Market...
History of October 8
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York...
History of October 7
3761 BC - The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 -...
History of October 6
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a...
History of October 5
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food...
